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CALGARY – It’s been two and a half years since her son, Craig, was murdered, but the pain is just as real as when Monica Kelloway got the news in May 2013.
Monica is following the trial of her son’s accused killer, Nicholas Rasberry, from the other side of the country, 5,000 kilometres away in Cape Breton, N.S.
“That’s what kills me right now is that I can’t be there,” Kelloway told Global News via FaceTime.
“It’s been hell…one word…hell…it’s a nightmare,” she said, fighting back tears. “He was my world. Because I was married eight years before I had him I never thought I’d have children…and when he came along he was like a gift from God.” Kelloway said, fighting back tears.
Rasberry is on trial for second-degree murder.
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Kelloway had only met Rasberry the day of the murder. They lived two doors apart in the southeast Calgary community of Auburn Bay.
Kelloway wasn’t surprised to hear her son had invited his new neighbor over for a BBQ.
“He was a Cape Bretoner at heart, and if you know us…we like a barbecue and we like to have a drink.”
Crime scene video taken by forensic investigators was played in court Tuesday, showing several knives: one bent, two others with blades completely broken off.
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Several rooms in the home are covered in blood.
Rasberry told 911 operators and responding officers he stabbed Kelloway, claiming Kelloway tried to sexually assault him.
Kelloway said Thursday it’s hard for her to hear what the defence is saying in court.
“This man is trying to make my son out as the perpetrator and who is to say that it wasn’t Nicholas Rasberry who tried to do it to my son, then backed off and he went into a rage?”
The prosecution will continue to present its case Friday; Rasberry’s lawyer is expected to present his defence next week.
Ultimately, it will be up to a judge to decide the facts, and whether or not Rasberry is guilty of second-degree murder.
Monica can only hope there will be justice for her son, but admitted she will never have closure.
“I’m not going to get peace. I’ll be right to my grave.”
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